THE CASE MADE FOR Brigadier A. S. Blackburn, V.C., by a Victorian soldier out of a cedar prison door. The soldier-car-penter carved a half-inch false bottom out of it with a penknife. The secret hiding place held nearly 60 sheets of flimsy paper of war ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 68 wordsKOEPANG.—Several prominent Koepang citizens and native leaders were beheaded by the Japs during the Timor occupation. AS interrogation of the natives ...
Article : 295 wordsDARWIN.—At Changi Camp, Singapore, four of 16,000 prisoners who had refused to sign a form agreeing ...
Article : 127 wordsA rain of at least an inch was needed all over the State, the chief Government agricultural ...
Article : 532 wordsMELBOURNE.—"They are unspeakable brutes; that is the only way to describe them," said ...
Article : 326 wordsA HIGH WIND uprooted this 50-ft. tree in Stepney at 3 a.m. today, and it fell on the roof of the home of Mrs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsThe owner of a costume which was stolen from the change room at a city cafe last Monday, saw a girl wearing it in King ...
Article : 165 wordsMELBOURNE.—The commandant of a Japanese prison camp at Sendai, on the east coast of Honshu, burnt the hair of British children with a red-hot poker as punishment for having broken a camp window. ...
Article : 252 wordsFor the second time within a month, residents of Bucknall road and Stewart street, Glanville, have had their yards flooded by heavy rain. WATER in the two streets was ...
Article : 235 wordsCANBERRA.—Maximum prices for women's, maids', and girls headware and for millinery renovations have been fixed in a ...
Article : 160 wordsSouth Australia's Army personnel beat the rest of the Army areas in Australia in collecting for the Third Victory Loan and a special ...
Article : 215 wordsA claim for £640 under the Workmen's Compensation Act for loss of a leg, and £25 medical expenses was made by John Robert ...
Article : 199 wordsWith the possible abandonment of Empire preference, it was essential for Australia to force her way into overseas markets in a ...
Article : 161 wordsMELBOURNE.—A new system of civil air priorities operates from today giving 33 per cent. of accommodation in planes to ...
Article : 223 wordsHunger, cold, and lack of communication with home caused the three main sufferings of Sister Jean Christopher, of Kadina, Methodist missionary nurse, who arrived in Adelaide today after three years as a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsBrigadier-General Sir Raymond and Lady Leane, of Marion road, Plympton, today received an airmail letter from their youngest son, Warrant-Officer Benjamin David Leane, 25, stating that he was well after four years as a ...
Article : 624 wordsAustralia's two greatest needs were water and people, the Governor (Sir Willoughby Norrie) said in an address this afternoon. HE was opening the fifth annual conference of the ...
Article : 388 wordsCANBERRRA.—The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) this afternoon announced that the maximum ...
Article : 60 wordsBY English price standard, the Governor (Sir Willoughby Norrie) and his household ate £500 worth of fruit in a month ...
Article : 110 wordsSINGAPORE, Today.—Twenty-four Australian nurses, including four South Australian, have reached here from Sumatra. They are the only survivors at a party of 65 who left Singapore just ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,489 wordsTODAY'S WEATHER FORECAST (issued at noon)—Generally fine with cold southerly winds, becoming variable. Some frosts on the highlands. The movement of a depression across ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 318 wordsPORT LINCOLN.—The fire which broke out in the 7,000-bag wheat stack at the Five-mile Depot last Wednesday is still ...
Article : 85 wordsMELBOURNE.—Don Pedro, following his smashing success with 9 7 at Flemington on Saturday, has become all the rage for ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY.—An electric power blackout at Cremorne today as a result of the Bunnerong powerhouse strike (now in its third ...
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